Unscramble TETHERBALL and you have 276 words, TETHERBALL itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The 10 letters split into 3 vowels and 7 consonants.
T1E1T1H43E1R1B34A1L12L12
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from TETHERBALL by length: 1 with 10 letters, 7 with 8, 21 with 7, 54 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 53 with 3 and 20 with 2. None has 9 letters.
21 7-letter words in TETHERBALL; 6 of them share the top score of 12. LEATHER, THEATRE and THEATER are everyday picks.
Of the 54 6-letter words you get when you unscramble TETHERBALL, 7 score 11 points, the group's best. BETTER, LETTER and BATTLE are the ones most people know.
7 of 60 5-letter words from TETHERBALL tie at 10 points; none scores more. THERE, THREE and TABLE will look familiar.
Among 60 4-letter words in TETHERBALL, the top score is 9, reached by 8. HERE, ABLE and HALL are the familiar ones.
BAH tops the 3-letter words made with TETHERBALL letters at 8 points; next come ETH and HAE on 6. ARE, ALL and ART will look familiar.
Keep every letter of TETHERBALL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with TE · ending in LL · all 10-letter words
The meaning of TETHERBALL, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
TETHERBALL works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TETHERBALL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 276) | 218 | 276 | 213 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BEERHALL, BETHRALL, HEELBAR, HERBLET, BERTHE, HEARTLET, BATTELER, BEATH, BELAH, HABLE, LETTABLE, BHAT and 45 more, 57 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: BLAHER, BRALETTE, BEAL, LAH, BAE and TE, 6 in all. Not in Scrabble US: HEBE.
With one more tile, the letters of TETHERBALL spell the words below.